Coun Craft (letters, last week) is mistaken; perhaps this is why taxpayers of South Kesteven District Council are having such a horrible time with their elected governors.
The council is a public service, not some business to manage on a profit-making basis.
The letter is pompous and self-recommending with-out addressing the realities the correspondents to the Mercury are referring to each week in the paper at all.
Tell us, Coun Craft, what has happened to the money Joyce Stevenson is asking about?
What has the council done with the bus subsidy money, the money saved on stopping vouchers, and to our share of the Lincolnshire peak-time element of £17,000 to each district? After all, most of our council tax goes to the county. Has your committee failed to secure our share?
And what about A Stubbs pointing to the £250,000 putting microchips in wheelie bins? As you are telling us you have been there for nine years presumably you voted for this expenditure to go through. Why?
My own area for concern is about the endless delay going on around the development in Bourne we definitely don't need.
What the district council has done is leave a number of householders at a complete loss because their houses are in the develop-ment zone described over three years ago, which means they can't sell because they can't describe the outcome of the development to purchasers.
Now the house market has collapsed.
We have had a development officer for years: for what? And how much has the district council spent so far on this botched-up planning exercise which, the taxpayers were told, was not going to cost them anything?
You really must answer the public. Why have six districts in this county got all-day free travel on the buses, yet your district hasn't?
R Britton
Millfield Road, Morton
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